The Annual Yom Kippur Social Justice Symposium.  Since the introduction of DNA testing in the 1980s, The Innocence Project has pioneered the use of this groundbreaking technology to scientifically prove innocence. In cases where DNA evidence is absent, the Project helps secure the freedom of wrongfully convicted people by presenting new — and equally convincing — evidence of innocence (which can include eyewitness misidentification, jailhouse informant testimony, false confessions, official misconduct, misapplied forensic science, and more). 

Jule Hall is the Assistant Director of Ambassadors and External Programs Staff at the Innocence Project. He is passionate about social justice. Jule collaborates with Innocence Ambassadors in order to leverage their platforms to free the innocent, exonerate the wrongly convicted and transform the criminal legal system. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, Jule was a campaign coordinator with Picture Motion, LLC, where he worked on award-winning documentaries examining prisoner reentry, gun violence and racial inequality in the U.S. In 2017, he became the first formerly incarcerated person to work full time at the Ford Foundation, where he provided data analysis and strategy development for its work on gender, racial, and ethnic justice.

Shabaka Shakur was arrested in 1988 after two of his friends were shot and killed in Brooklyn. Though Shakur maintained his innocence, his case was complicated by false testimony and a confession fabricated by a police detective with a history of misconduct — and he was wrongfully convicted the following year.